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Darren Wershler-Henry is a writer, critic, editor and the author or co-author of ten books, most recently, The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting (McClelland & Stewart), and apostrophe (ECW), with Bill Kennedy. Darren is also an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University.

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darren wershler-henry's critical articles.

This is an abbreviated list of my shorter publications:

anthologies

"Return from Without: Louis Riel and Liminal Space." Gone to Croatan: Origins of American Dropout Culture. Ed. Ron Sakolsky and James Koehnline. New York: Autonomedia/AK Press, 1993. 315-28.

"Canadian "Pataphysics: Geognostic Interrogations of A Distant Somewhere." Semiotext(e) Canadas. Ed. Jordan Zinovich. New York/Peterborough: Semiotext(e)/Marginal Editions, 1994. 66-78.

"OG Style: Ice T/Jacques Derrida." Postmodern Apocalypse: Theory and Cultural Practive at the End. Ed. Richard Dellamora. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. 241-61.

"Treatise On Style -- Louis Aragon." Lost Classics, ed. Michael Ondaatje, Michael Redhill, Esta Spalding, Linda Spalding. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2000. 290-94.

refereed journals

"Vertical Excess: what fuckan theory and bill bissett's Concrete Poetics." Capilano Review ser.2.23 (Fall 1997): 117-23.

journals and magazines

"Queen Victoria's Personal Spook, Psychic Legbreakers, Snakes and Catfood." An Interview with William Gibson and Tom Maddox. Virus 23 0 (Fall 1989): 28-36.

"The (W)Hole in the Middle: The Metaphysics of Presence in the Criticism of Robert Kroetsch." Open Letter 8th ser. 3 (Spring 1992): 58-75.

"Strangled by an Intestine" An Interview with Guy Maddin. Virus 23 $ [third issue] (Spring 1992): 11-14.

"Under the Radar: Five New Poets, Six New Books." Quarry 42.3 (1993): 123-38.

"Concatenation Hemorrhaging: Framing John Riddell." Open Letter 8th ser. 8 (Winter 1994). Toronto Since Then (part 1), ed. Clint Burnham, Lance la Rocque, Lisa Narbeshuber. 117-27.

"Missing Mass: Christopher Dewdney on Science Fiction." Prairie Fire 15.2 (Summer 1994: "New Canadian Speculative Fiction. "): 220-28.

"Minimal Swerve." A Review of Steve McCaffery's The Cheat of Words. Books in Canada 26.2 (March 1997): 18.

"Devour More Prime Meat Blindly: The 'Pataphysics of the Keyboard." Open Letter 9th ser. 7 (Winter 1997). Milennial 'Pataphysics issue. 64-81.

"NICHOLODEON: Epitaph." Open Letter 9th ser. 8 (Spring 1997): 99-114.

"Argument for A Secular Martyrology." Open Letter 10th ser. 4 (Fall 1998): 37-47.

"The Trouble With Grad School: A Found Critique." Open Letter 10th ser. 5 (Spring 1999): 95.

"Cyclops Revolution" A Review of 4 poetry CDs from Cyclops Press. Books in Canada 28.4 (May 1999): 25-26.

"Writers of the World, Unclench." THIS 37.2 (September/October 2003): 28-32.

"Not An Especially Bright Dog." BRICK 76 (Winter 2005): 104-08.

"Uncreative is the New Creative: Kenneth Goldsmith Not Typing." Open Letter 12th ser. 7 (Fall 2005): 152-59.